The writer James Baldwin and the poet Nikki Giovanni are at the center of a crackling work of verbatim theater at the Vineyard Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMJessica Hecht, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Chekhov himself too often get overwhelmed by this ambitious Arlekin Players Theater adaptation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMThe new play, about a 15-year-old girl and her impending quinceañera, creates a fitting party vibe. If only the script didn’t clarify every cultural reference.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:07PMJosh Azouz’s vivid, nightmarish play at Astoria Performing Arts Center in Queens is a hallucinatory tale about two refugees and a talkative infant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PMA cast of three recount the gripping drama of the death of a teenager by the Dutch police in 2012.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMIn this sweet, spoofy romp of a musical comedy, Romeo awakens from a 400-year slumber and follows a Juliet look-alike to Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMThis New York City Children’s Theater adaptation of Maya Angelou’s celebrated memoir faces the challenge of faithfully telling a story that encompasses a great deal of pain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07PMLive theater summons energy no digital performance can match. Set designers for five of this season’s plays explain how they built eye-catching environments that crackle with it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AMTheater has always been a team sport. But this Covid-stalked Broadway season has made clear that a prize for the entire cast should be added.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMFrom new shows like “Macbeth” and “A Strange Loop” to long-running Tony Award winners, a rundown of everything you need to know.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMDecidedly anti-sensationalistic, Alison Leiby’s shrewd and funny personal monologue plays downtown. Uptown, a staged reading focuses on a gruesome case.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMMona Mansour’s rich trilogy, now at the Public Theater, follows a displaced Palestinian family.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03AMNow starring in “Wish You Were Here,” the Iranian-born actress has made her mark in three works by playwrights of Middle Eastern descent.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMIn a mishmash new musical based on his 1992 movie, he charms the audience as a has-been comic reconnecting with family.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMCamille A. Brown’s revival of Ntozake Shange’s 1976 Broadway landmark brings exuberant life to a play that celebrates Black women’s solidarity in the face of pain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07PMA new musical-comedy retelling of “The Odyssey” from the York Theater Company tries to center a powerful woman but feels like a show about and for men.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMIn Keith Huff’s new play, two friends head to the Jan. 6 insurrection, but this production substitutes unfunny cartoonishness for the characters’ humanity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMIn this international production, you can check into the Balkan Express Motel, if you dare, and fulfill an ancient generational curse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMThis early 1990s play, based on the life of Marshall McLuhan, is being revived by the company that created it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMHuang Ruo and Basil Twist’s new choral-theater piece at St. Ann’s Warehouse borrows from traditional Chinese tales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMJohn J. Caswell Jr.’s play is a political drama wrapped in the spooky pleasures of the horror genre.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PMGrief for a lost love is the unhealed wound at the core of this play by Agnes Borinsky, which takes a disquieting turn into the underworld.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMLloyd Suh’s play is a riff on the arrival of the real Afong Moy, possibly the first woman from China in the United States, and a lens on contemporary racism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMWhile full of fine shows, a long-awaited binge was also full of stress about how loosely audiences followed rules about staying healthy in a pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMFive Asian American actors, all over 60, deliver monologues that touch on grief and heritage, on adult children and cultural cancellation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMIn this D.H. Lawrence play, a production by the Mint Theater, men are trouble, “pure and simple.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMThe actor will be making his New York stage debut with Jamie Lloyd’s Olivier Award-winning production, coming in April to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMArin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play, a Theater for a New Audience production that begins previews Saturday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThe return of this brisk, smart provocation of a monologue is a cheering development, all the more so because it’s a belly-laugh funny show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:33PMThis opera, by Mac and Matt Ray, is as much a celebration of theater itself as it is an example of the communion humans crave but have been deprived of.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMTheaterlab stages a gimlet-eyed romance involving a girl and a young Nazi soldier in Occupied France by the playwright Rita Kalnejais.
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